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Volume grayed out in Finder on Mac

Every now and then I’ll be connected to a server on my Mac with a very specific volume mounted, but then it doesn’t appear anywhere in Finder. When I try to reconnect to it, it’s grayed out, as if I was connected after all.

For a while, the only way I knew how to fix it was to restart, but that’s obviously most inconvenient.

Turns out, there is quite a simple solution, and that is to unmount the volume via the command line.

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Thank you so much for this post. It was so frustrating, not seeing the shares in finder and also not being about to reconnect to the server to mount them. Manually unmounting this way does fix this issue, thanks.

Another solution I tried “diskutil unmount /Volumes/NameOfVolume” didn’t work. I wonder what the difference is between these commands, other than the elevated permission?